$10,000,000 Mock Draft

Originally posted by KowboyKiller:

Originally posted by Jcool:

Originally posted by Kolohe:
Impossible!!!

You would have to be an insider to know who's trading with who on top of your research of what picks fit where. Not every team in the draft stays put on where they are.

It is a publicity stunt... Gets Budweiser a tons of interest and wont have to every worry about paying it out.

Reminds me of a commercial in the 80s where Pepsi had this thing going where you collect points and get different things with them they showed and the points they took, and at the end of the commercial as a joke this kid lands an AV-8 Harriet jet at school and they displayed it was for 7,000,000 points. Sure enough, some kid thought they were serious and collected the points and took Pepsi to court lol.

Originally posted by Jcool:

Originally posted by KowboyKiller:

Originally posted by Jcool:

Originally posted by Kolohe:
Impossible!!!

You would have to be an insider to know who's trading with who on top of your research of what picks fit where. Not every team in the draft stays put on where they are.

It is a publicity stunt... Gets Budweiser a tons of interest and wont have to every worry about paying it out.

Reminds me of a commercial in the 80s where Pepsi had this thing going where you collect points and get different things with them they showed and the points they took, and at the end of the commercial as a joke this kid lands an AV-8 Harriet jet at school and they displayed it was for 7,000,000 points. Sure enough, some kid thought they were serious and collected the points and took Pepsi to court lol.

1990s actually:

Quote:
Pepsi Points Case, is a contracts case tried in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York in 1999, in which the plaintiff, John Leonard, sued PepsiCo, Inc. in an effort to enforce an "offer" to redeem 7,000,000 Pepsi Points for a AV-8 Harrier II jump jet, which PepsiCo had shown in a portion of a televised commercial that PepsiCo argued was intended to be humorous. The plaintiff did not collect 7,000,000 Pepsi Points through the purchase of Pepsi products, but instead sent a certified check for $700,008.50 as permitted by the contest rules. Leonard had 15 existing points, paid $0.10 a point for the remaining 6,999,985 points, and a $10 shipping and handling fee.

The claim alleged both breach of contract and fraud. The case was finally heard in 1999, during which time the defendant moved for summary judgment pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 56. Among other claims made, Leonard claimed that a federal judge was incapable of deciding on the matter, and that instead the decision had to be made by a jury consisting of members of "the Pepsi generation", to whom the advertisement would allegedly constitute an offer.

The court, presided over by Judge Kimba Wood, rejected Leonard's claims and denied recovery on many grounds, including;

1. It was found that the advertisement featuring the jet did not constitute an offer.

2.The court found that even if the advertisement had been an offer, no reasonable person could have believed that the company seriously intended to convey a jet worth roughly $23 million for $700,000 dollars, ie, that it was mere puff.

2. The value of the alleged contract meant that it fell under the provisions of the statute of frauds, but the statute's requirement for writing between the parties was not fulfilled, so a contract had not been formed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_v._Pepsico,_Inc

Originally posted by Jcool:

Originally posted by KowboyKiller:

Originally posted by Jcool:

Originally posted by Kolohe:
Impossible!!!

You would have to be an insider to know who's trading with who on top of your research of what picks fit where. Not every team in the draft stays put on where they are.

It is a publicity stunt... Gets Budweiser a tons of interest and wont have to every worry about paying it out.

Reminds me of a commercial in the 80s where Pepsi had this thing going where you collect points and get different things with them they showed and the points they took, and at the end of the commercial as a joke this kid lands an AV-8 Harriet jet at school and they displayed it was for 7,000,000 points. Sure enough, some kid thought they were serious and collected the points and took Pepsi to court lol.

1990s actually: